Founding Fathers under attack: Students demand Thomas Jefferson statue removal

Campus Reform ^ | 5/2/19

[Altura Ct.]

Students at Hofstra University are demanding the school remove a Thomas Jefferson statue.

The group included other demands as well, including "mandated, comprehensive, cultural competency training.”

Students at Hofstra University protested a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday at the second annual event, titled “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!”

The statue has been the center of controversy on the campus and has been defaced with “DECOLONIZE” and “Black Lives Matter” signs and stickers. According to a media advisory sent by the Jefferson Has Gotta Go (JGG) campaign, the protest was held at Hofstra Breslin Hall. Organizers included “students of Hofstra University, staff from Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, and supporters of Hempstead community.”

"it is about what the statue represents: a legacy of racism and bigotry on college campuses"

The group gathered on campus to “expose the culture of bias and discrimination,” as stated in the media advisory, and to demand “the statue of Thomas Jefferson is removed.”

Hofstra College Democrats “want the statue to be removed and [we] stand with the Jefferson Has Gotta Go Campaign,” the group's president, Brynne Levine, told Campus Reform

Former College Democrats executive board member Miranda Pino also professed her support.

"JGG isn’t just about a statue," she told Campus Reform. "Yes, the removal of the statue is important, but it is about what the statue represents: a legacy of racism and bigotry on college campuses."

Further demands from JGG, stated in its media advisory, include “an online, bias reporting system, an online complaint receipt program, and mandated, comprehensive, cultural competency training.”

The University’s Board of Trustees and Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz have yet to be persuaded to go along with the demands.

“President Stuart Rabinowitz has refused to remove our campus sculpture of Thomas Jefferson at the will of the board of Trustees,” JGG stated in its media advisory.

The university president responded in June 2018 after the first protest, announcing the statue would remain and that he would create a task force “to consider further dialogue and education about our founding fathers, the Atlantic slave trade and Western expansion; to think about what freedom and equality mean at the University.”

Hofstra University did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

The protest came just hours after George Washington University students voted to ditch the school's mascot, "George the Colonial," named after another Founding Father, George Washington.

[griffin]

Too far. Who are the people inciting this? Needs to end. Society now needs to correct itself. Jefferson was one of the most antislavery founders. Ignorance is rampant.

Just heard Mussolini seized power even tho 80% of Italians were loyal to Italian constitution.

This will end badly. Rather it end sooner rather than later so my kids can live free. This crap needs to be eliminated and run out of the country.

Love it or leave.

[Hostage]

You knew it would go there.

[griffin]

Good tag line.

[SharpRightTurn]

Replace Jefferson with a statue of Idi Amin. That should make them happy.

[minnesota_bound]

It is not the students doing this. It is the professors and administrators using the students for cover.

[FLT-bird]

Of course.

We Southerners have been telling you the PC Revisionists were coming after the Founding Fathers next for years now. Jefferson will be their first target. He’ll be followed by Washington. Then they’ll get to Madison. Henry and Mason will follow.

[sport]

There is a method to their madness. Their controllers know what it is. What is it? Very simple. To destroy a Nation, one firsts destroys its past, its heritage, and its traditions. That is what is happening here. It began in the South and was successful, so it is spreading. It was originated by the Globalists Elite who have formed many splinter groups under one umbrella. Their end purpose is total control of the World. The groups operating under their umbrella include but are not limited to: Socialists, Environmentalists, Animal Rights activists, Social Justice Warriors, and other splinter groups within the afore mentioned. Their goal is world Domination and their aim is to kill all who oppose them and most of those who support them. Leaving only a remnant to be used as slaves. The slaves are to be worked to death and replaced as necessary by those bred within the remnant stock. Their enemise are Patroits from all Nations and Nationalists from all Nations. These are to be marginalized, demonized, and ruthlessly exterminated as the opportunity presents itself.

[numberonepal]

Trump Time Traveler confirmed (again).

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

5:37 PM - 17 Aug 2017
Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....

5:45 PM - 17 Aug 2017
...can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also...

5:51 PM - 17 Aug 2017
...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!

[DJ MacWoW]

This article is dated March 29.

However, these universities need to be closed as they are not institutions of learning.

Jefferson's Antislavery Actions - Monticello

“You know that nobody wishes more ardently to see an abolition not only of the trade but of the condition of slavery: and certainly nobody will be more willing to encounter every sacrifice for that object.” -Thomas Jefferson to Brissot de Warville, February 11, 1788

[mjp]

it is about what the statue represents: a legacy of racism and bigotry on college campuses"

"Who" says? And why do "they" get to be the ones who decide what the right meaning/interpretation is?

[JeanLM]

So JFK’s quote praising Jefferson’s intellect when he dined alone will go too? Mount Rushmore is their next project ala the Taliban destroying ancient statues of Buddha.

[olezip]

Students at Hofstra University are demanding the school remove a Thomas Jefferson statue.

Expel the students or close the University and send everyone home.

[ml/nj]

Time to shut down Hofstra. No more tax-money. Block the roads. Shut it down.

ML/NJ

[glennaro]

Ignorant fools such as this one really truly believe they are doing something brave ... something noble ... something pure in the “fight against evil” when, in fact, what they are doing is exposing their ignorance and their cowardice for all the world to see. Of course the Democrat/Left eats this up because they live in an alternate reality.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the link.

Good to see you...it seems it’s been a while?

Hope all is well.

[bgill]

Colleges have turned into nothing but a joke. A very sad expensive joke and insane asylums.

[hal ogen]

I “demand” that these students immediately be exiled for ten years to the Congo or to Venezuela. What pathetic nitwits.

[LouAvul]

Hofstra? Why have I never heard of these places? A bunch of geeks get together and tire of video games and say, “Hey, I know what! Let’s start a college!”

[surrey]

My husband and I went to Hofstra in the 60’s. It’s been around along time but it sure has changed since we were there. Back then you could count the number of non-white students on one hand.

[RetiredArmy]

Maybe they should go. Stupid IDIOTS!!! The left on attack. Destroy America. The nation that gives them their voice. If it was North Korea, they’d be packed off to the gulag or shot on sight. IDIOTS.